The Armenian community of Italy organizes Armenian Genocide memorial events every year and Italians also take part in them, Italian Ambassador to RA Bruno Scapini said.

“Italy was one of the first countries to condemn the Armenian Genocide. We stand for international recognition and condemnation of the Genocide to prevent similar crimes in future,” Amb. Scapini told reporters in Tsitsernakaberd on April 24.

Head of the Italian delegation to OSCE PA, Mr. Riccardo Migliori said for his part, “The 1915 events refer not only to Armenia-Turkey relations but to the entire mankind.”

Commenting on Turkey’s possible accession to the EU without recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Mr. Migliori said that Europe urges Turkey to admit its mistakes.